Gingrich On IRS Scandal: Obama Admin. Profiles Patriots, But Not Terrorists

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Gingrich On IRS Scandal: Obama Admin. Profiles Patriots, But Not Terrorists

Arguing that President Barack Obama owes an apology to all tea party groups in the wake of the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of nonprofit organizations, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday that he finds it unseemly that the administration "will not profile terrorists but profile patriots."

"I think the President has to say he's going to open up totally, he's going to demand everybody meet with congress, go to the hearings. He is going to fire everybody he can legally fire who's been involved in this," Gingrich said during MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "And they've to look at changes...Remember, this is an administration which will not profile terrorists but profile patriots. Profile constitutional groups? I mean, this is almost madness."

Gingrich retierated the point later in the interview, calling on Obama to issue a mea culpa for the "culturally sick" targeting.

"He also owes every tea party in America, every group called patriot, every group that wants to study the Constitution an apology," Gingrich said. "How can you have an American government profile against the word patriot? I mean, there's something culturally sick if the American government says 'Boy, you put that word constitution in your name, we're going to come after you.' Again, this isn't an administration that is shocked at the idea of profiling for terrorism but apparently had an entire part of the IRS that was profiling for patriotism. I find that to be very, very chilling in terms of our political liberty."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gingrich-on-irs-scandal-obama-admin-profiles-patriots

Apology? No, let's investigate.

The head of the IRS is a Bush appointee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022836081

Remember the debt ceiling and the sequestration?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022836205

[murray hill farm]

1. Sometimes, these days....

Terrorists call themselves Patriots. I wonder if..when the lock and loaded march into DC on July 4th, we can call them terrorists.

[Javaman]

2. meh, gingrich.

I'm sure he'll try to turn this into some hackneyed book or something to sell to his gullible audience.

[blm]

3. Remember the GOP outrage when Bush WH targeted peace marchers as 'terrorists'

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and some of them are STILL defending themselves in legally for the horrific crime of being an anti-war protester?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
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In 2004, America's Transportation Security Administration confirmed that it had a list of passengers who were targeted for security searches or worse if they tried to fly. People who have found themselves on the list? Two middle-aged women peace activists in San Francisco; liberal Senator Edward Kennedy; a member of Venezuela's government - after Venezuela's president had criticised Bush; and thousands of ordinary US citizens.

Professor Walter F Murphy is emeritus of Princeton University; he is one of the foremost constitutional scholars in the nation and author of the classic Constitutional Democracy. Murphy is also a decorated former marine, and he is not even especially politically liberal. But on March 1 this year, he was denied a boarding pass at Newark, "because I was on the Terrorist Watch list".

"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," asked the airline employee.

"I explained," said Murphy, "that I had not so marched but had, in September 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the constitution."

"That'll do it," the man said.
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I disagree with many who think these TeaParty groups should NOT have been targeted. The groups were VERY partisan in nature - that is KNOWN - and, also a known: many TeaParty leaders around the country turned out to be past tax cheats and scammers.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/ap/ap/ohio/gop-leaders-tax-liens-concern-ohio-officials/nXSsH/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/14/tea-party-leader-accused-_n_203420.html

Much of the tax trouble predates any Tea Party involvement.

Buffalo News:
WASHINGTON -- James Ostrowski and Leonard A. Roberto, central figures in competing factions of Buffalo's low-tax tea party movement, both have a history of failing to pay federal income taxes, Erie County records show.

Liens totaling $52,459.83 have been filed against Ostrowski's Buffalo home for unpaid federal taxes dating back to 2001, the county records show.

Roberto settled five liens against his properties in Depew and Alden about two years ago after a long battle with the Internal Revenue Service that, he said, cost him upward of $150,000.

The Buffalo News checked the tax records of six of Western New York's most prominent tea party figures after a source provided information indicating that Ostrowski, founder of the Free Buffalo and Free New York anti-tax movements, had tax troubles.>>>

[kentuck]

4. As Abe Lincoln said...

You can call a horse's tail a leg but that doesn't make it so.

He can call these people patriots but that doesn't make it so.